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Optimal Stochastic Path Control of Surface Ships in Shallow Water
(University of Michigan, 1977-08-15)
The control of a surface ship along a prescribed straight_line path is formulated as a stationary linear, state_variable control problem. The open-loop characteristics of this problem are studied using data for a Mariner ...
Maneuvering Characteristics of Great Lakes Vessels
(University of Michigan, 1978-09-01)
A student project was proposed to the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers for the collection of the maneuvering information from these operators. These data were to ...
Flat Plate, Straight-Framed Hulls
(University of Michigan, 1972-08-01)
The report was prepared in fulfillment of NA 591 Advanced Reading and Seminar in Naval Architecture under the supervision of Professor Richard B. Couch. &&The report can be thought of in two major parts. The first part is ...
The Wave Generated by a Fine Ship Bow
(University of Michigan, 1972-10-01)
Presented at Ninth Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, August 1972, Paris.&&The flow field near the bow of a ship has some characteristics of a high-Froude-number problem, even if ship speed is moderate. Some of these ...
A Rational Strip Theory of Ship Motions: Part II
(University of Michigan, 1971-12-01)
The intention in this thesis is to derive a method to find the pressure distribution along a ship due to head_sea regular waves. The ship is restrained from oscillating, and the ship meets the waves with a high frequency. ...
Ship Vibrations: Lecture Notes
(University of Michigan, 1970-05-01)
This set of lecture notes was written during my visit at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Engineering Post_Graduate School (COPPE), in 1968. The students who were taking my course there had had a graduate level ...
Investigation into Ship Maneuverability in Shallow Water by Free-Running Model Tests
(University of Michigan, 1978-09-01)
This study concerns the effects of water depth and ship speed on the maneuverability of ships. Free-running experiments were conducted to determine the coefficients and the nonlinear term in Nomoto's expression for the ...
The Cost Savings of Multiple Ship Production
(University of Michigan, 1974-12-01)
As presented to American Association of Cost Engineers and published in AACE Bullelzin, Vol. 6, No. 2.&&We are all aware that increased production tends to lower costs, especially in mass production industries. To a lesser ...
A Contribution to Flow-Separation Problems in Unsteady Motion of a Body
(University of Michigan, 1979-07-01)
Roll motion is the least predictable of ship motions, largely because of viscosity effects, which in turn causes flow separations to occur. As a result of these phenomena, roll damping is often highly nonlinear. It is best ...
Ship Maintenance and Repair Cost Versus Age
(University of Michigan, 1972-08-01)
This paper on ship repair costs was originally written in Japanese by Prof. F. Hiramoto of the Department of Naval Architecture, University of Tokyo. At my request, Prof. Hiramoto's colleague Dr. T. Koyama translated it ...